Jesse Brown
Co-founder
Angel Gates Fonseca, Jesse Brown, and Shawn Strong founded HUDSY as a way to connect the filmmaking community in the Hudson Valley as collaborators instead of competitors, and built a prototype for the first local streaming platform for the Hudson Valley.
Co-founder Laura Kandel joined the team and together they launched one of the first filmmaker cooperatives in New York.
HUDSY debuted a paid Filmmaker Apprentice Program that has proudy graduated 28 of the next generation of local filmmakers and continues to grow each year.
HUDSY.TV offered a video streaming platform featured 650+ films including HUDSY Originals, Apprentice Films, and content licensed from over 150 other local creators. In 2026, it transitioned onto YouTube in order to reach a more global audience.
HUDSY received 501c3 status and began serving our community as a nonprofit film production company under the name HUDSY Community Project Inc on January 1, 2024.
HUDSY’s innovative, film-centered community arts programming creates dozens of short documentary films and community stories that are shared on YouTube, serves 6-8 apprentices, brings together 2,000 creatives in-person, impacts 80,000+ lives, and invests $750,000+ into the creative economy per year.
